adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
difficult
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Oh, how doubly difficult it was for them both.
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This is made doubly difficult where there is a concurrent struggle for power among vested interest groups and individuals.
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So you have the doubly difficult task of being speedy and sure of your ground.
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It's made doubly difficult because of her blindness.
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And if your skin is sensitive and easily irritated, finding suitable products can be doubly difficult .
important
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The closure was doubly important because the catchment area covered the inner London districts of Westminster, Paddington and Hammersmith.
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In fact, in the Republic of Ireland, catholicism is doubly important .
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It was therefore doubly important that the physician did not deceive his patients.
sure
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You're supposed to touch the cross for luck; we fell on it to make doubly sure of ours.
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After all, new citizens who may have voted erroneously in 1996 will be doubly sure to get things right next time.
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Its exclusion from major anthologies made doubly sure that after a generation or so it was read by almost no one.
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When he found Fern Cottage in darkness and Seb missing he had been doubly sure .
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A second treatment with the product you have used a week later will make doubly sure the lice have all been eradicated.
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Fitting wheel locks or clamps can make doubly sure .
■ VERB
make
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You're supposed to touch the cross for luck; we fell on it to make doubly sure of ours.
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However, to make doubly certain, he sprayed on a second layer; then he set off toward the antenna.
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This is made doubly difficult where there is a concurrent struggle for power among vested interest groups and individuals.
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And since in his innocence he does not understand this, his natural grief is made doubly painful.
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It's made doubly difficult because of her blindness.
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A second treatment with the product you have used a week later will make doubly sure the lice have all been eradicated.
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Fitting wheel locks or clamps can make doubly sure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Here too, the doubly forbidden relationship had its penalties.
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It was plain that she must work doubly hard.
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It would be a doubly beneficial act.
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Obviously the magistrates were trying to take more care with the girls before them whom they saw as doubly problematic.
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Or would the command of the amendment finally be winked at, in which case the Constitution would be doubly trashed?
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Props who can play on either head can be doubly useful on a bruising tour.
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This is doubly true of its patterns of industrial waste flow.
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To some extent, also, they were doubly unlucky in 1991.